Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent years, the weekly Independent. These are just students, the deans smile, shaking their heads--their views are not to be trusted, for they cannot be as cool-headed as we. Often the most pleasant moments at faculty meetings come when the crowd joins together in good-natured laughter at the latest thrust, by some dean or another, at the folly of the "student media." Condescenison is always in style at Faculty meetings...
...market. Nine years ago, when Crimson editorials protested the University administration's brutal handling of a student strike, the "authorities" encouraged the formation of a new, "conservative" alternative, The Independent. Yet over the years The Independent, too, became sometimes critical of the administration, and now the Faculty's bitter laughter is not piqued by Crimson jokes only. Those students are at it again, they say, blindly criticizing us in print. Or, as we reply, just doing...
...going. "We thought, 'Wouldn't we be great onstage?' " says Suzanne. " 'We make each other laugh so.' " They started working "semisteadily," as they put it, two years ago, and this year became a permanent team, ampersand and all. Audiences are now joining in their laughter. That kind of light humor called improvisation, which died out in the dark days of the late '60s, is back, as welcome as ever...
...comrade and President for 29 months, who lost to Carter by only 3% in the 1976 election. Responding to the G.O.P. leaders' promptings, Republican Richard Schulze of Pennsylvania signaled that he was changing his vote. The clerk of the House then cried, "Off no, on yes." To jeers, laughter and applause, the tally shifted again: 207 to 205. The pro-Carter forces finally had taken the lead, and after one more member's yes, the chairman brought down his gavel with a whack and declared the final vote: 208 in favor of lifting the embargo, 205 against...
George Carlin has never tried to change the world; he just likes to run up on that stage and gesticulate and sweat and express, and the gales of laughter--sometimes even hysterical and mad laughter--make him feel good. "My purpose is self-expression, and when they applaud or laugh, it's their way of saying, 'Hey man, we like your self-expression," he says...